Facile Control of Interfacial Energy-Barrier Scattering in Antimony Telluride Electrodeposits

Recent advances in interface engineering of thermoelectric nanomaterials

“…During the electrical transport, a potential hydrazine or barrier may form due to the energy difference between the second phase and the TE matrix, which allows the passage of highenergy carriers while filtering low-energy carriers. This energy filtering effect (which can also be described as selective filtering or scattering) can substantially increase S without sacrificing s. [80][81][82][83][84][85][86] 3.3.1 Metal. Introducing metal atoms as the second phase directly allows optimizing the electronic structure and arrangement of atoms, resulting in lower k l and enhanced PF.…”

“…This energy filtering effect (which can also be described as selective filtering or scattering) can substantially increase S without sacrificing σ . 80–86…”

Fabrication of PEDOT: PSS-PVP Nanofiber-Embedded Sb2Te3 Thermoelectric Films by Multi-Step Coating and Their Improved Thermoelectric Properties

“…Even though an amorphous Sb 2 Te 3 phase fabricated via an electrochemical process possessed a relatively high S of~500 µV/K at room temperature, it only exhibited very low electrical conductivity (σ,~10 −2 S/cm) [5]. Therefore, to overcome this problem, scientists have modulated various factors, including chemical composition [7], crystal phase [5,8], crystallinity [9], charge-carrier concentration [10], and mobility [11,12].…”